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Our guest today is Dinesh Varadharajan, vice president and chief product officer at Kissflow, a no-code software pioneer. In this conversation, Varadharajan talks about lessons in perfecting a product, like how less can be more and pitfalls to avoid. He also talks about Kissflow’s next product—a low-code software package with advanced customisation features aimed at the IT team
(00:37) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation
(00:57) Our guest today — Dinesh Varadharajan, VP and chief product officer at Kissflow
(01:45) The beginnings of Kissflow, in 2004, when low-code and no-code weren’t buzzwords yet. It was about do-it-yourself computing.
(03:20) The idea — take computing to the business users who were close to any problem, without relying on an IT team
(05:55) 2012 onwards, beginning to add customers with increasing number of users
(06:48) Three main needs of business users and focussing on them as a no-code workflow automation product
(08:10) Kissflow today — a three-product company, including Kissflow Digital Workplace
(09:55) Coming soon, a low-code product aimed at IT teams for more sophisticated applications
(11:08) Two big implementations of Kissflow at big enterprise customers
(13:49) A specific example of an application built at Reckitt Benckiser — automating the ‘write-off’ process, specific to RB
(16:15) Kissflow low code, with advanced features
(16:57) The biggest lesson — ‘power of simple’
(19:16) Think ‘we are always wrong,’ iterate, simplify
(20:24) Co-creation and product development as a collaborative effort across functions
(21:40) Product life cycle has become much more data driven
(22:42) Design for future, develop for now
(24:52) The biggest pitfall in product development
(26:32) What ‘failing fast’ means in product development
(29:00) Founders and product managers
(30:22) Attributes of a great product manager in SaaS
(32:21) Three important trends in SaaS product development
About Dinesh Varadharajan
https://shrtm.nu/ihVZ
Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds
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By Forbes India - Tech ConversationsOur guest today is Dinesh Varadharajan, vice president and chief product officer at Kissflow, a no-code software pioneer. In this conversation, Varadharajan talks about lessons in perfecting a product, like how less can be more and pitfalls to avoid. He also talks about Kissflow’s next product—a low-code software package with advanced customisation features aimed at the IT team
(00:37) Intro to The Daily Tech Conversation
(00:57) Our guest today — Dinesh Varadharajan, VP and chief product officer at Kissflow
(01:45) The beginnings of Kissflow, in 2004, when low-code and no-code weren’t buzzwords yet. It was about do-it-yourself computing.
(03:20) The idea — take computing to the business users who were close to any problem, without relying on an IT team
(05:55) 2012 onwards, beginning to add customers with increasing number of users
(06:48) Three main needs of business users and focussing on them as a no-code workflow automation product
(08:10) Kissflow today — a three-product company, including Kissflow Digital Workplace
(09:55) Coming soon, a low-code product aimed at IT teams for more sophisticated applications
(11:08) Two big implementations of Kissflow at big enterprise customers
(13:49) A specific example of an application built at Reckitt Benckiser — automating the ‘write-off’ process, specific to RB
(16:15) Kissflow low code, with advanced features
(16:57) The biggest lesson — ‘power of simple’
(19:16) Think ‘we are always wrong,’ iterate, simplify
(20:24) Co-creation and product development as a collaborative effort across functions
(21:40) Product life cycle has become much more data driven
(22:42) Design for future, develop for now
(24:52) The biggest pitfall in product development
(26:32) What ‘failing fast’ means in product development
(29:00) Founders and product managers
(30:22) Attributes of a great product manager in SaaS
(32:21) Three important trends in SaaS product development
About Dinesh Varadharajan
https://shrtm.nu/ihVZ
Theme music courtesy Free Music & Sounds:
https://soundcloud.com/freemusicandsounds